The General Offer of Grace

The committee on absolution affixed to its written report a footnote the contents of which unmistakably proves that he reasoning from two contrary proposi­tions implicates himself in much nonsense. "It is known," so the note reads, "that in the period of the Reformation this constant anxiety concerning one's salvation was rare among the believers …. Their conception of the gospel was that of the canons of Dordt; as a general, sincere offer of salvation. Those who received the gospel by faith...